SCRUM team with different sice. How does it affect the scheduling

Anders Persson_po6mdi

I have a team that started small and then we have increased the numeber of people. How should I manage that in the JIRA Portfolia (Cloud version)? 

I can not find any way to set the capacity in a SPRINT so that the forecaster is able to calculate that I use a larger team. Or is that automatically done by comparing the team size, avaiable hours, at different times?

When starting it was 2 persons in the team and now it is 5. Does JIRA portfolia autmiatcally increase the estimated velocity due to the increase of persons?

Eva Kasiak_q7mdx0

Hi Anders

why not simply use existing features inside JIRA Software for estimates. Start from the concept of user stories which are given estimates (level of effort) by all team  members during the planning meeting. Assuming you've 5 members each work full time it gives you 800 hrs/month worth of work and 200 hr/week of capacity. From there you will have original estimates (once all team members commence planning poker and indicate average level of effort for the issue), you then set up priorities (refine the backlog) and finally based on the priorities you take cards to create sprint = 200 hrs/week because this is your team capacity. 

Portfolio is good when you have multiple ongoing complex projects, shared teams etc. Based on what you wrote I would question if portfolio is good for you (if it wouldn't overcomplicate the work).